Are the world?s oldest democracies failing? In this extraordinary collection, top scholars in political science, sociology, philosophy and economics, discuss a radical shift towards inequality in an age of mass capital globalization.
Authors
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 323
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 0802047874 9781442673823
- LCCN
- JC575
- LCCN Item number
- D45 2000eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xxvi, 263 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00602029 (OCoLC)666904010 (CaOOCEL)418135
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Contributors 12
- Introduction 16
- Part One: An Overview 28
- 1 Ten Propositions about Equality and Democracy 30
- Part Two: The Perspectives of Philosophy, Economics, and Sociology 42
- 2 Understanding the Universal Welfare State: An Institutional Approach 44
- 3 The Party's Over: What Now? 58
- 4 Why not Socialism? 85
- 5 Welfare States and Democratic Citizenship 106
- 6 Equality, Community, and Sustainability 123
- Part Three: Inequality in Three Democracies 136
- 7 Rethinking Equality and Equity: Canadian Children and the Social Union 138
- 8 How Growing Income Inequality Affects Us All 157
- 9 American Style Welfare Reform: Inequality in the Clinton Era 175
- 10 Equality and Welfare Reform in Blair's Britain 189
- Part Four: The Media, Public Opinion, and Financial Inequality 222
- 11 News Media and Civic Equality: Watch Dogs, Mad Dogs, or Lap Dogs? 224
- 12 Growing Inequality: What the World Thinks 240
- 13 The Economic Consequences of Financial Inequality 251
- Index 272
- A 272
- B 273
- C 273
- D 275
- E 276
- F 277
- G 277
- H 278
- I 278
- J 279
- K 280
- L 280
- M 280
- N 281
- O 282
- P 283
- Q 285
- R 285
- S 285
- T 288
- U 288
- V 289
- W 289
- Y 290
